AWACS Calls; Format for Reference Document

[Tvol]

Short story: I'm away from home and can't play DCS, so I decided to take some time to make the checklists and references that I wanted for FC3. (I might get around to making purty-fied checklists for the other planes at some point but for now limiting myself to FC3 makes things more manageable.)

 

Anyway, while I was writing it all out, I realized that I'm still pretty confused when it comes to AWACS calls. Here's what I have written in the references for the F-15C, regarding AWACS (the formatting is kinda messed-up on the forums but this should be close-ish):

 

FORMAT:

 

1. Your Callsign
   
2. AWACS Callsign
   
3. “BRAA”:
   
   1. 
      
   2. bearing of bandit or contact from you
      
   3. range of bandit or contact from you in nautical miles
      

[*]——OR——

[*]“bulls” / “bullseye”:

1. bearing of bandit or contact from bullseye
   
2. range of bandit or contact from bullseye in nautical miles
   

[*]altitude of bandit or contact in feet

[*]aspect: hot (head-on), flanking (side-on), cold (tail-on)

 

EXAMPLE: Uzi 1-1, Magic, contact bulls 050 for 40, at 25,000, hot

This announces a contact at 50 degrees from bullseye, 40nm away, at 25,000 feet, heading toward you.

EXAMPLE: Uzi 1-1, Magic, BRAA, 150 for 35, at 20,000, cold

This announces a contact at 150 degrees from you, 35nm away, at 20,000 feet, heading away from you.

 

“Pop-up group”: Means that the contact(s) has/have just appeared on radar; they are new.

 

 

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Is it right? Close to right? Did I horribly screw-up somewhere or miss something? Also, I'm assuming at this point that for Russian planes the calls are similar, but callsigns are different (e.g. "301"), and all measurements are in metric. Are there any other differences?

[VTJS17_Fire]

You're right! Apart from the fact, that the ingame AWACS calls lacks from real calls, you got it. :)

 

In real life, "pop-up group" means a new contact within 40NM of you.

If the in the game as is, I don't know.

 

 

regards,

Fire

 

 

PS: ... and the brevity "bullseye" is IRL never abbreviated with "bulls", even if you can hear that in some videos on YT.

[Aginor]

Well, let's say it SHOULD not, sometimes real soldiers just don't do exactly what the books say. :D

[Serp Supreme]

Should throw in, if you lock up a target and ask the AWACS to declare, you can get identification from AWACS on if the target is friendly or hostile.